Representations of Empire: Rome and the Mediterranean World (Proceedings of the British Academy: Themed volumes of essays in the humanities and social sciences, 114)

ISBN 10: 0197262767 / ISBN 13: 9780197262764

Published by The British Academy, 2002

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• Title: Representations of Empire: Rome and the Mediterranean World (Proceedings of the British Academy: Themed volumes of essays in the humanities and social sciences, 114)
• Publisher: The British Academy
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197262767
• ISBN 13: 9780197262764
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The essays in this volume cover the whole of the period in which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. The belief shared by all the contributors is that the Roman empire is best understood from the standpoint of the Mediterranean world looking in to Rome, rather than from Rome looking out.

The papers focus on the development of political institutions in Rome itself and in her empire, and on the nature of the relationship between Rome and her provincial subjects. They also discuss historiographical approaches to different kinds of source material, literary and documentary - including the major Roman historians, the evidence for the pre-Roman near east, and the Christian writers of later antiquity.

This volume reflects the immense complexity of the political and cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean, from the late Republic to the age of Augustine.

About the Author

Martin Goodman is Professor of Jewish Studies in the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Wolfson College, and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Among his books on Jewish history are Rome and Jerusalem (2007) and Judaism in the Roman World: Collected Essays (2007).